Hokitika Borough

This committee was succeeded by a new Municipal Corporation, for which a nomination meeting was held on 25 September 1866, where there was great confusion about the correct electoral procedure.

As more nominations were received than were positions available, an election was held on 3 October.

[1] Many members of the Town Improvement Committee did not make the election,[2] and the councillors elected were W. Hungerford, James Bonar, Charles Williams, James R. Anderson, R. Ecclesfield, A. Cumming, William Shaw,[3] F. L. Clarke, and J.

[4][5] The councillors first met on 9 October 1866[6] and elected James Bonar as their first chairman.

[7] One of the purposes of that ordinance was to declare the election of the first nine councillors as valid.